veg corrupted / Neo involved

LarsHD wrote on 4/2/2009, 4:34 AM
- Creating a project in 8.0c (in Vista 64)
- One file in the project is a Cineform Neo Scene file
- I save the project
- Reopen it. It works.


- I then launch 8.0c, this time in Xindos XP 32 bit
- I open the the same project as above
- Immediately upon trying to open the project Vegas crashes


- I go back to Vista 64 and try to open the file
- The file is now corrupted and it can not fnd anything and will not accept me pointing to "replacement" files
- Project file corrupted


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I have found that if I create a project involving Cineform Neo Scene in Vegas 8.0c under Vista 64 and then try to open this project in 8.0c but in Windows XP 32, then Vegas crashes...

And sometimes the project VEG file gets corrupted and becomes unusuable to me.

If I don't involve Cineform Neo Scene files then I have not experienced the above.

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Would it be a good idea if Cineform and Sony tried to fix this?

a) Fix so that Cineform Neo Scene can be used in Vegas 8.1 Vista 64.

a) Fix so that Cineform Neo Scene files in 8.0c projects created on the Vista 64 platform do not crash Vegas projects when these projects are opened in 8.0c XP 32.


I want is to be able to run the best transcoding of my footage on the fastes platform.

I want to be able to open the veg-files in any Windows platform I like without having to think "is there a Cineform Neo involved" that cause crashes and corrupt projects files.

Best & thanks in advance for your advice
Lars



Comments

blink3times wrote on 4/2/2009, 4:49 AM
I've run into a few somewhat weird issues now with Neo Scene. I can't for example open DVDa anymore without a fatal error while Scene is installed. I now either have to uninstall Scene before opening DVDa.... or run DVDa on a separate OS

I have Noooo idea what the connection is between Scene and DVDa
TheHappyFriar wrote on 4/2/2009, 4:53 AM
Would it be a good idea if Cineform and Sony tried to fix this?

sounds like it to me. Did you make a support ticket?
LarsHD wrote on 4/2/2009, 9:31 AM
Yes, have made a support ticket but no feedback / solution yet...
jabloomf1230 wrote on 4/2/2009, 9:49 AM
Is "Xindos" some kind of virtual machine software (Xandros)? Are you trying to run the same copy of Vegas 8.0c from both OSes on one computer? Generally, if you are running double-boot or virtual machine software, you should use totally separate installs of Vegas for each OS. People have previously documented similar problems with Vegas, if only a single installation is shared.
LarsHD wrote on 4/2/2009, 10:53 AM
Totally separated.
jabloomf1230 wrote on 4/2/2009, 3:15 PM
How about Cineform NEO? Also totally separated and not demo versions? Also there doesn't happen to be an old version (2.8) of the CFHD.DLL file hanging around, you know the one that comes installed with Vegas?

The only thing else that I can suggest is to try out the veg file on a totally separate XP 32 computer. Maybe someone here with NEO Scene and XP 32 would volunteer to help you out.
LarsHD wrote on 4/3/2009, 3:21 PM
No demo versions. No older versions either.

There is a version 2.8.7.148 of a CFHD.DLL in the Vegas Pro 8.0 folder.

Lars
jabloomf1230 wrote on 4/6/2009, 10:50 AM
Rename that file to CFHD.DLL.OLD. See if that helps. It's an old version (2.8) of the VFW Cineform codec that ships with Vegas. NEO Scene installs the new version in either c:\windows\system32 (32 bit Windows) or c:\windows\SysWOW64 (64 bit Windows). Leaving the old version of the codec hanging around, sometimes confuses Vegas to no end.
LarsHD wrote on 4/6/2009, 11:54 AM
it's ok now. or intermittently ok. I can drag in the Neo files without crashing vegas.

But rendering to the cineform codec isn't reliable.

Vegas rendering isn't reliable and for sure it doesn't get better when the cineform codec gets involved.